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Maria Rita Carvalho Garbi Novaes1, Luiz Carlos Garcez Novaes, Dirce Guilhem

  • 1Professor do Curso de Medicina. Escola Superior em Ciências da Saúde/ESCS/FEPECS, Brasil. Becada Fogarty Internacional Center, Grant R25 TW006056.

Acta Bioethica
|April 17, 2010
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This study found that the medical curriculum at ESCS has improved, with better integration of ethics and humanistic values in earlier years compared to later clerkship years. Overall, the 2006 program shows enhancements over the previous pedagogical project.

Area of Science:

  • Medical Education
  • Bioethics
  • Humanistic Values

Background:

  • Curricular management in medical schools requires integrating ethics and humanistic values.
  • Assessing the integration of bioethics, ethics, and humanistic values is crucial for medical education quality.
  • The study focuses on the Medical School of ESCS in Brazil.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To diagnose the integration of bioethics, ethics, and humanistic values into the ESCS Medical School curriculum.
  • To contribute to the curricular management process by analyzing the current program.
  • To compare the 2006 academic program with the 2001 pedagogical project.

Main Methods:

  • A cohort and documental study design was employed.
  • Thirty-two indicators for ethics and twenty-four for humanization were used.

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  • Analysis included educational purpose, content, and activities across all years and programs, comparing 2006 curriculum with the 2001 pedagogical project.

    • Main Results:

    • Ethics and bioethics themes were more integrated in the Freshman and Sophomore years than in Junior and Senior clerkship years.
    • Humanization themes showed greater recurrence in the first and fourth years, particularly in abilities and attitudes, and community interaction modules.
    • Humanization themes declined in the 3rd and 4th years, with significantly lower insertion compared to the first four years and clerkship.

    Conclusions:

    • The 2006 academic program at ESCS demonstrated improvements in the integration of ethics and humanistic values compared to the 2001 pedagogical project.
    • There is a need to enhance the integration of these themes, especially in the later years of medical training.
    • The study provides a diagnostic for ongoing curricular management and improvement.